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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Joan Lipkin

LGBT themes are focus of short play festival

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished February 15, 2012

What Joan Lipkin has in mind for playgoers is a theatrical buffet, an opportunity to sample seven short plays, rather than settle in for a full-length entrée. Plus, "Briefs: A Festival of Short Lesbian and Gay Plays" is the first theater festival in...

Michelle Hand and Robert Thibaut star in the New Jewish Theatre production of ‘The Immigrant.’ Photo by John Lamb.

NJT skillfully revisits ‘The Immigrant’

BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished June 8, 2011

"The Immigrant," a warm, nostalgic, almost sepia-toned play by Mark Harelik, has been brought back to the stage of the New Jewish Theatre to close out its 2010-2011 season. Over the past few years, "The Immigrant" has appeared previously on the NJT stage...

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